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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping
 inet/inet6 stats
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:29:33 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:16:49 -0400

> @@ -1272,7 +1273,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
>  			if (!(af = nla_nest_start(skb, af_ops->family)))
>  				goto nla_put_failure;
>  
> -			err = af_ops->fill_link_af(skb, dev);
> +			err = af_ops->fill_link_af(skb, dev, skip_af_stats);

Maybe just pass down the raw flags as 'ext_filter_mask', like we do
for the rtnl_fill_ifinfo() call chain.